this is also a point pete williams made earlier. in effect, you could learn of a lot of precautions being taken, especially in major east coast cities. it does not mean they're happening as a result of any additional threats. and, chuck, we can't point that out often enough. >> reporter: well, and, brian, i had a security official tell me that had there been warnings in advance, that you would have had a different style of security at the boston -- yes, there was plenty of security, because it's a major event going on on a big day in boston. but there wasn't the type of early warnings you would have seen a difference in the style of security that boston would have been going through had they had some sort of advanced warning or threat had come in. >> chuck todd at the white house. thanks. i mentioned boston mayor tom menino earlier. you perhaps heard governor patrick say that he started his day by visiting the boston mayor in his hospital room. well, there turned out to be no keeping mayor menino down. even though he was in the hosp